Thanks for all the response! Perhaps an Andriod rooted device is the way to go. I had looked at the Kindle Fire, but didn't see much of a calendar option- do these root well into an Android OS (reliable after rooting)? iDevices have some neat features (iTouch, iPad), but the cost is a bit much. I noticed some of the old Palm's dropped in price recently, but for the same price there is much better technology. Regarding the distraction I speak of- I get annoyed with people who are glued to their phones in and out of social situations, and that is what I was becoming with the Pre. It also had this side effect of making my wife nag more. Constantly checking and getting e-mail, status updates, directions and maps, etc. I know these can be turned off, but having your phone bundled with all that technology in one unit was too much for me :) Just a personal preference, call me old fashioned, but I want the phone to be just the phone, and my organizer to be mostly an organizer. Hopefully that makes sense. -- Jeremy MountainJohnson Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Jeremy MountainJohnson wrote: > >> I tried a similar smart phone a couple years back [...] and found it to be >> [...] a big distraction > > > Can you explain what you mean by "a big distraction"? I understand all the > other concerns and can think of ways to work around them. For price you can > get an older, used device, and for monthly bills, well, you get a non-phone > or just don't sign up with a carrier. But distraction is a lot broader and > might be harder to solve. > > Is it the fact that current devices have a ton of apps? Because you're not > required to install any of them. > > > > > -Yaron > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list